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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"White saviour"”.
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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
The term ‘White Savior Industrial Complex’ became popular when Nigerian-American Teju Cole criticised a polarising documentary, Kony 2012, in a series of social media posts. Cole argues that the complex allows white saviours to be lauded for showing support to poor Africans while ignoring the …
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A novel: Bloodlines and exegesis: In the blood: mothering and othering
… Chapter Two tackles the complexities of whiteness. It examines the PNG thread of the novel in terms of post-colonial discourse with particular reference to ‘white saviour complex’ and the volunteer tourist as a modern day missionary. The unavoidable echoes of colonialism given Australia’s …
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Exploring Privilege through the creation and Live/Digital Performance of an Alter Ego
Through the creation of my own alter ego, called Gemella, this Practice-as-Research project interrogates the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘ego’, and how this relationship is performed on social media sites such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Using psychoanalytic theory, it considers how …